Project : CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF STEROIDS AND TERPENOIDS AND THE CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION

Design of polymer properties, especially the relation between tensile and dynamic moduli in terms of chain conformational statistics was considered. Data on new elastomer blends with gradient properties enabling mixing on the molecular level were analysed in parallel to classical commodity materials. A new model describing the rheological behaviour of immobilized biopolymers was developed and tested on the alginate system. Enzyme immobilization in polymer networks was considered, particularly the dynamic properties of the polymer, which are directly related to transport processes. Scaling relations between rheological parameters and structure were analysed as a function of the catalytic activity of biopolymers.